Plumbago indica

Family: PLUMBAGINACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Chethikoduveli, Chivappu-koduveli, Chuvana-koduveli, Koduveli

English name(s): Chitrakmool, Fire plant, Rosy flowered leadwort, Radix Plumbago, Scarlett Leadwort

Habit: Shrub

Flowering & Fruiting: September-March

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Cultivated or found as an escape

Description: Shrubs with long succulent roots; branches sometimes rooting, up to 0.5 to 1.5 m, cylindrical, striate, without fascicled leaves in the axils, young stems flaccid. Leaves alternate, to 15 x 7 cm, oblong-elliptic, broadest towards the middle, acute at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous, finely scurfy underneath. Flowers red in long purplish red to scarlet racemes, not corymbose, up to 25 cm, rachis and bracts without glands. Sepals up to 1.0 cm, red, glandular all over. Corolla tube up to 3.5 cm long, lobes to 12 mm long, obovate, distinctly mucronate. Filaments of stamens as long as the corolla tube, anthers exserted just beyond the throat. Ovary ovate-oblong, style base hairy, stigmas 5.

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